What survives is a shallow hollow, roughly 24 metres across, ringed by a very low earthen bank, the kind of feature that catches the eye only if you already know to look for it.

This is a univallate enclosure, meaning it was defended or defined by a single surrounding bank or wall, a common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland. At Baile An Tsagairt, that single circuit has been reduced to the faintest suggestion of its former outline. It was clearly enough intact to be recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which means it was legible in the landscape during the nineteenth century, but time and land use have since worn it almost to nothing. The site was catalogued as part of the wider Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, published in 1986 by J. Cuppage under the auspices of Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.

What is quietly striking about this site is not what remains but the fact that it remains at all. A slight hollow and a low bank are enough to keep it on the archaeological record, a ghost of an enclosure on a harbour slope, marking a settlement whose inhabitants, dates, and purpose have long since been absorbed into the silence of the ground.